word choice process (was: Announcement Follow-up)

Very interesting.  How did you come to choose those words?  For that matter,
how does anyone choose their words?  For me, I try to associate a feeling
with the word, though I guess in 'real life,' it may be the other way
around, I don't know.  In Canotaea, 'morning' is iánna (similar to your
iáwós!) because I imagined the first speakers of the language uttering those
sounds in wonder (ObTolkienInfluence, I seem to remember the elves doing the
same thing when they first awoke, correct me if I'm wrong).

Guy
>
> I marked out a lot of Hadwan emotion words a while back...
> these are closest
> to happiness:
>
> bioiós        /BjU"ju:s/
>    Closer to "satisfaction", really... the enjoyment you get
> from having
> done something right.
>
> iáwós         /jQ:"wu:s/
>    Don't know any word for this... probably "awe" or "wonder"..
> prototypically it's the feeling of having experienced a miracle.
>
> hilashá       /hIlA"SQ:/
>    Happiness, but closer to 'contentment' -- being free of want.
>
> hmíiá         /xmi:"jQ:/
>    Literally "laughter".
>
> cirfós        /tsIr"p\u:s/
>    Delight or pleasure...
>
> (Half these words end in -ós, stem -ir-, which is a productive ending
> something like English -ness... I think verb forms are more
> likely to be
> used for those.)
>
>     *Muke!
>

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